{"id":34556,"date":"2018-09-02T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34556"},"modified":"2018-09-01T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T20:23:45","slug":"ca4-where-ci-only-provided-info-for-sw-he-wasnt-a-material-witness-for-trial-so-no-reason-for-disclosure-shown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34556","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Where CI only provided info for SW, he wasn&#8217;t a material witness for trial so no reason for disclosure shown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant didn\u2019t make a showing to get the CI\u2019s identity under Roviaro. The CI was merely the source of information to get the search warrant and he wouldn\u2019t be a witness at trial. There wasn\u2019t even a sufficient showing to get a hearing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/164343.P.pdf\">United States v. Bell<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 24335 (4th Cir. Aug. 28, 2018).*<\/p>\n<p>Because defendant challenges probable cause and application of the good faith exception, the court goes to GFE first. \u201cOur review of the record demonstrates that the affidavit in this case bears many of the indicia of a strong search warrant application.\u201d Therefore, reliance on it was justified. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/174340.U.pdf\">United States v. Jones<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 24363 (4th Cir. Aug. 28, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant didn\u2019t make a showing to get the CI\u2019s identity under Roviaro. The CI was merely the source of information to get the search warrant and he wouldn\u2019t be a witness at trial. There wasn\u2019t even a sufficient showing to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-faith-exception","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34557,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34556\/revisions\/34557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}